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A See-Saw programme
Written by Michael Cole.
What is the light in the sky that Mr Jupiter has spotted? Is it an aeroplane, a shooting star, or a spark from Reg's bonfire? With the voices of George Layton and John Telfer. (R)
The Lawn Tennis Championships
Action from the crucial quarter-final matches on Centre and No 1 Court, plus all today's news, introduced by HARRY CARPENTER. including at
3.0 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
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HARRY CARPENTER introduces further coverage.
International Athletics Live coverage of this evening's Grand-Prix meeting in Stockholm, with STEVE CRAM expected to have his first major race of the season. Commentators DAVID COLEMAN
STUART STOREY
Television presentation Athletics SVT, Sweden
Introduced by Jonathan King Tulsa, Oklahoma
When J.K. told people in America that he was going to Tulsa, everyone said 'why?' Tulsa, right in the middle of America, is known as 'The
Buckle on the Bible Belt' and is the seat of the extraordinary Oral Roberts University. J.K. looks at
American evangelists, now in the middle of a huge scandal involving power struggles, sex and lost millions of dollars. He also meets
Huey Lewis.
Producer GORDON ELSBURY (Revised repeat)
Turbulent Priests
Fr John Methuen is a high-church Anglican, and former chaplain at Eton.
Viraj Mendis is a Sri Lankan communist evading a deportation order.
Together they have revived the ancient custom of sanctuary - the protection of the Church for those on the run.
Tonight Fr John joins
John Harrison and the Brass Tacks audience to explore the right of the Church to defy the State; and to ask if the laws of man should give way to the laws of God.
Studio director ROBERT KHODADAD Producer DIANNE NELMES Editor COLIN CAMERON BBC North West
concluding this season of some of the most outstanding films made for television.
Tonight starring Tony Lo Bianco
Timothy Williams
When teenager
Bobby Cavalero is arrested on a street known as a gay pick-up spot he confesses that he has been having an affair with an older man. Even though his mother tries to be understanding, his father can accept only the values of old-fashioned masculinity and rejects him. But facing the scorn of his father and the ridicule of his classmates is only the beginning.
This sensitive drama was directed by Herbert Wise , best known for his work on I Claudius.
Screenplay by CONRAD BROMBERG Produced by THOMAS DE WOLFE. CYMA RUBIN Directed by HERBERT WISE
(First showing on British television)
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The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With political and economic reports from Vincent Hanna Will Hutton and Nick Clarke
How does radar work? Using concepts from physics, the limitations and potential of a modern radar system are explored.
(R)
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